Motivational Quotes

Youth

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Youth

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

11.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

25.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

29.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

32.

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

35.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

48.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth has no age.